A minor earthquake magnitude 3.49 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Volcano in Hawaii. The epicenter was at a depth of -0.09 km (-0 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 15/09/18 / 2018-09-15 00:01:11 / September 15, 2018 @ 12:01 am. All ids that are associated to the event: hv70593842. Unique identifier: hv70593842. Exact location of event, longitude -155.2839966 West, latitude 19.4109993 North, depth = -0.09 km. The 3.49-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 14:01:11 / 2:01 pm (local time epicenter).
Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 41 km (25 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Kailua (c. 12 000 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 38 km (24 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Kalaoa (c. 9 600 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Waikoloa Village, Kalaoa, Waimea (min 5000 pop).
There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days four thousand, seven hundred and seventy earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 5 km WSW of Volcano, Hawaii.
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